Today, the International Tourism Day is celebrated around the world, and on that occasion, the second Tourism and Ethnological Film Festival (TEF Fest) was held on Krk, Croatia last night, where the promotional video of the Tourism Organization of the City of Novi Sad “Feel the Spirit of Novi Sad” won the “Grand Prix” in the foreign category. The award was presented by the mayor of Krk, Darijo Vasilić.
The TONS video was selected in a competition of 104 films from 64 tourist organizations, museums and ethno associations from Croatia and the countries of the region. By reviewing and evaluating the films that passed the selection, the Expert Commission selected the film “Feel the Spirit of Novi Sad” as the best in the foreign category, and with this, the promotional video about Novi Sad became the first international film to take the title at the TEF festival.
In three minutes, Novi Sad was presented through sublimated impressions of tourists that they gained during their visit to the city. The ease of life, culture and art, victory, youth and joy, rhythm, magic of smell, taste and climate, tradition, welcome, sound and spirit of Winter Fantasy are the messages that show through the frames why it is worth visiting Novi Sad, and it all ends with the key message “Feel the spirit of Novi Sad”.
The TEF Festival is the first and only tourist and ethno film festival in Croatia launched last year by the Croatian Heritage Trail Association. After launching a festival last year aimed at promoting tourism and ethnic heritage in Croatia, this year they received the title of an international festival because they introduced a foreign category in which films and promotional videos from Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia competed.
